I can remember in circa 1960 talking with an old man over our back fence in Gympie. We discussed my interest in aviation and he told me this story; he served in the 3rd Battalion in France, and one day when they where in the trenches a German plane came low over head. One of his mates garbed a Lewis gun and fired. They immediately saw the plane swerve and then land (not crash) in a field and cut the motor. The Red Baron was dead in the plane. A Canadian pilot claimed the killed, and this was the accepted story for many decades.
It is good to see that it is today generally accepted that he was shot down by the Australians.
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